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Pure Price Effects of Nonwage Compensation
Zax, Jeffrey S. - 1985
This paper discusses the pure static price effects which are engendered by tax preferences for nonwage compensation. Section II demonstrates that, because of these price effects, optimal consumption bundles will contain larger quantities of the goods included in nonwage compensation, and smaller...
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Worker Sorting, Compensating Differentials and Health Insurance : Evidence from Displaced Workers
Lehrer, Steven F. - 2007
This article introduces an empirical strategy to the compensating differentials literature that i) allows both individual observed and unobserved characteristics to be rewarded differently in firms based on health insurance provision, and ii) selection to jobs that provide benefits to operate on...
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Wage and Benefit Changes in Response to Rising Health Insurance Costs
Goldman, Dana - 2005
between cash wages and other benefits. Under such an arrangement, higher health insurance premiums must induce changes in the … composition of total compensation -- either in lower after-tax wages or in decreased contributions to other benefits. The results … suggest that about two-thirds of the premium increase is financed out of cash wages and the remaining one-thirds is financed …
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Labor Market Responses to Rising Health Insurance Costs : Evidence on Hours Worked
Cutler, David M. - 1996
Increases in the cost of providing health insurance must have some effect on labor markets, either in lower wages … wages, we document in this paper a significant effect on work hours as well. Using data from the CPS and the SIPP, we show …
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Does Public Health Insurance Reduce Labor Market Flexibility or Encourage the Underground Economy? Evidence from Spain and the United States
De La Rica, Sara - 1993
This paper compares the labor market implications of the health insurance system in Spain and in the United States … that in Spain, unlike the United States, essentially all heads of household work in the covered sector and thus have a full …
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The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries
Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo; Barceló, Cristina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …
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The Impact of Employer-Provided Health Insurance on Dynamic Employment Transitions
Gilleskie, Donna B. - 1999
We estimate the impact of employer-provided health insurance (EPHI) on the job mobility of males over time using a dynamic empirical model that accounts for unobserved heterogeneity. Previous studies of job-lock reach different conclusions about possible distortions in labor mobility stemming...
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Designing Benefits for Platform Workers
Gruber, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Designing benefits for the growing platform workforce in the U.S. poses significant challenges. While platform workers need protection against unforeseen shocks, work that is often part time and spread across multiple platforms makes the traditional benefits model untenable. This paper reports...
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Safety Nets and Social Welfare Expenditures in World Economic History
Fishback, Price Van Meter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The safety nets in high-income countries before 1900 and in low-income countries today were based on savings and aid from extended family, friends, charities, churches, and small amounts from local governments. Mutual societies and eventually insurance companies offered insurance against lost...
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The Effect of Trade Unionism on Fringe Benefits
Freeman, Richard B. - 1978
This paper analyzes the impact of unionism on the fringes paid blue-collar workers using data on individual establishments. The main substantive finding is that trade unionism raises the fringe share of compensation, particularly pension and life, accident and health insurance. The magnitude of...
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